Through a carefully designed program of therapy, visual arts, drama, movement and ongoing evaluation, Project Self Discovery is building a record of success with first-time offenders, teen parents and other at-risk youth. Harvey Milkman, a psychologist and drug prevention counselor, and Cleo Parker Robinson, artistic executive director of The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, started this program to formally integrate the arts into drug prevention work. A rigorous screening process helps identify youth who would benefit most from this program. The selected youth pick an arts discipline for their focus and are assigned a personal counselor. The arts programming is complemented with a daily therapy session over a 12-week period, which also includes a rights-of-passage ceremony and wilderness activities. Their graduating ceremony, with parents and friends in the audience, includes a display of their artwork with a discussion of their goals and plans. The first half of this year the Project will focus exclusively on youth who have been through the juvenile justice system in order to assess the programÌs impact on that target population. The second half of the year will expand the services offered by Project Self Discovery to its graduate program. Initial evaluations indicate that the program is successful in increasing participantsÌ resiliency skills.